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MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
to give me a specimen of Carabus elaihratus if 3 mu have any duplicates I 
shall be much obliged for another to compleat the pair, a female will be most 
acceptable but if you have not a duplicate female, a male will do as well as I 
can procure a female for it from a friend ; should you be able to spare one be 
good enough to put it into a pill box lined -with cork and well wrapped up 
in paper and send it to Mr. Jos'* Hooker directed to me who will forward it 
to me. I am very anxious about it as I have a pair of all the large Carahi 
except this. Present my best respects to Mrs. Scales and believe me to 
remain Yours truly 
■W" Elfoed Leach. 
I have just recollected that jmu very much wish to possess Buprestis 
Salicis, I will therefore give you one of mine ; as I have two which were in 
Dr. Lettsome’s cabinet which I purchased. 
Pray excuse this scrawl. 
‘ Robert Scales Esqr 
To bo left at Mr. Richardson’s Druggist Norwich.” 
My deae Sie 
I should have much sooner replied to your welcome 
letter of the 9th Sep' had I not waited to receive the box you were so good 
as to send me before I wrote. Having however never yet heard the smallest 
tiding of it, I cannot refrain any longer from writing to tell you so, & to 
beg that you will if possible make enquiry about it & if it have been sent 
give me the name of the vessel & other particulars that I may enquire 
about it here. I am quite eager to see the Insects you announce & should 
be extremely mortified if they were not to come to hand. I do not however 
give them up for the only parcel ever received by the same conveyance 
which was one sent me 2 or 3 years ago by Mr. Hooker was quite as long on 
its way & arrived safe at last. I cannot however understand how parcels 
should be so long on their waj" from Yarmouth to this place between which 
vessels can never be longer in sailing than a week or ten days. I shall take 
care of friend Burrell’s * letter which I am very curious to see & return it 
along with as many of j'our desiderata as I am able to muster which I feel 
however will not be very many as you are so rich in most genera. Since I had 
the pleasure of your pop visit which I greatly regretted was not longer I 
have been very busy with the theory of Entomology but have done little or 
nothing at the practical department & have not found a single new Insect. 
Next summer when I hope to be relieved from the chain which now confines 
me to my study, I promise myself greater acquisitions & I shall set to work 
♦ Apparently Mr .J. Burrell author of a list of Norfolk Insects partly 
printed in the ‘ Transactions of the Entomological Society’- of London ’ in 
1807 and 1809, vol. i. pp. 101-240, but unfortunately including only the 
Coleoptera. 
